Baltimore police investigating another Greenmount shooting

A man was shot in the 1000 block of Greenmount Avenue in the Johnston Square neighborhood of East Baltimore Monday night, according to Baltimore police — adding another crime scene to a north-south corridor already left bloodied in recent days.

On Nov. 25, a 16-year-old boy was shot in the 2200 block of Barclay Street, about a block off Greenmount.

The shooting scene Monday night was about a block away from where 41-year-old Michael Allen was fatally shot on Oct. 31, in the 1100 block of Homewood Avenue.

Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts, who visited the scenes of both shootings near the 2700 block of Greenmount, has said a drug turf battle is being fought in the area between rival gangs, the Black Guerrilla Family and the Bloods.

The city has started demolishing more than 35 properties in the Johnston Square neighborhood, across Interstate 83 from Mid-Town Belvedere, in order to create a green space across what is now five city blocks.

July has seen more than 40 homicides so far, making it the second month in 2015 that homicides in Baltimore city have risen above 40. Homicides are also up across the board since 2014. See our homicide map here for a deeper dive into the data. Data accurate as of July 29, 2015 Months with more...

In 2015, Baltimore has seen two months with more than 40 homicides in a single-year period since the 1970s when the city's population was around 300,000 more residents, or during the 1990s when the number of homicides peaked at 353 murders.